Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

A team led by Tomas Stolker has discovered a young gas giant exoplanet orbiting a 12-million-year-old star, while its ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter's moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.